I have a laptop and I set the Admin as myself with password and now I can't remember what that password is. I can't re-install Windows XP since that needs to be done by the Admin, so what do I do? I need to be able to reset the Admin password but I am under a user with limited access. Can you help me with this. The laptop is an HP pavilion ze 5400

This is an Exchange Forum, I would ask this in the XP Forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itproxpsp/threads

See below http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm If you search google for Windows XP admin password reset...or something like this, you will find lots of free utils. Sukh

hi, start the laptop using xd cd and go to the operating system repair option(not the recovery console).when the installation part is going(installing devices with blue color screen with progress bar) press shift+F10 then it will come to the command prompt. now you can change the password using net user administrator newpasswordDarshana Jayathilake